Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 18.100 - Professional Service Corporations.
18.100.100 - Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect.

RCW 18.100.100
Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect.

Unless a director, officer, shareholder, agent or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter who has been rendering professional service to the public is legally qualified at all times to render such professional services within at least one state in which the corporation conducts business, he or she shall sever all employment with, and financial interests in, such corporation forthwith. A corporation's failure to require compliance with this provision shall constitute a ground for the forfeiture of its articles of incorporation and its dissolution. When a corporation's failure to comply with this provision is brought to the attention of the office of the secretary of state, the secretary of state forthwith shall certify that fact to the attorney general for appropriate action to dissolve the corporation.

[ 1998 c 293 § 4; 1969 c 122 § 10.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 18 - Businesses and Professions

Chapter 18.100 - Professional Service Corporations.

18.100.010 - Legislative intent.

18.100.020 - Short title.

18.100.030 - Definitions.

18.100.040 - Application of chapter to previously organized corporations.

18.100.050 - Organization of professional service corporations authorized generally—Architects, engineers, and health care professionals—Nonprofit corporations.

18.100.060 - Rendering of services by authorized individuals.

18.100.065 - Authority of directors, officers to render same services as corporation.

18.100.070 - Professional relationships and liabilities preserved.

18.100.080 - Engaging in other business prohibited—Investments.

18.100.090 - Stock issuance.

18.100.095 - Validity of share voting agreements.

18.100.100 - Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect.

18.100.110 - Sale or transfer of shares.

18.100.114 - Merger or consolidation.

18.100.116 - Death of shareholder, transfer to ineligible person—Treatment of shares.

18.100.118 - Eligibility of certain representatives and transferees to serve as directors, officers, or shareholders.

18.100.120 - Name—Listing of shareholders.

18.100.130 - Application of Business Corporation Act and Nonprofit Corporation Act.

18.100.132 - Nonprofit professional service corporations formed under prior law.

18.100.133 - Business corporations, election of this chapter.

18.100.134 - Professional services—Deletion from stated purposes of corporation.

18.100.140 - Improper conduct not authorized.

18.100.145 - Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination prohibited.

18.100.160 - Foreign professional corporation.